05 Feb LEO HURWITZ
THOUGHTS ON THE MAKING OF DISCOVERY IN A PAINTING
A film by Leo Hurwitz and Manfred Kirchheimer
This Piece Is Written By Manfred Kirchheimer Featured in Photo Above
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In 1968 Leo Hurwitz and Manny Kirchheimer filmed an early version of Cezanne’s Still Life with Apples, to be called Journey into a Painting at the Museum of Modern Art for the American Federation of Arts. Unlike that film, the expanded Discovery in a Painting, made from the same materials, would be voiceless, the images would simply flow to reveal through framing and editing the intimate interior of the artist’s world. There would be no one but your own sensibilities to guide you. Writing notes like, “I see what an intense and penetrating eye gives back through paint: the warmth of...